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Siegfried the Wrestler : The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel / Peter S. Fisher.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LettrePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839466919
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 266.0092 23
LOC classification:
  • HF5456.B7 .F574 2023
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part One -- 1. Three Readers: George Grosz, Moritz Bromme, Adelheid Popp -- 2. For and Against Popular Literature -- 3. Enter Siegfried the Wrestler -- 4. Wrestling -- 5. National and Ethnic Stereotypes -- 6. Current Events and Sensation -- 7. Class Conflict: Siegfried as Peacemaker -- 8. Wilhelmine Women and their Wrestler -- 9. The Contradictions of Colportage: Paternalism and Populism -- 10. Postscript: Heinrich Büttner’s First Colportage Novel of 1892 -- Part Two -- The Illustrations -- Notes
Summary: Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part One -- 1. Three Readers: George Grosz, Moritz Bromme, Adelheid Popp -- 2. For and Against Popular Literature -- 3. Enter Siegfried the Wrestler -- 4. Wrestling -- 5. National and Ethnic Stereotypes -- 6. Current Events and Sensation -- 7. Class Conflict: Siegfried as Peacemaker -- 8. Wilhelmine Women and their Wrestler -- 9. The Contradictions of Colportage: Paternalism and Populism -- 10. Postscript: Heinrich Büttner’s First Colportage Novel of 1892 -- Part Two -- The Illustrations -- Notes

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Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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